What Now After I Ripped The Carpet Off

I can not believe how many staples are used for padding.

What now after i ripped the carpet off. Remove the cutout piece of carpet. Pull up a few feet of carpet and fold it over. This is our stairs before. Make as small a cut as possible that will encompass the entire area of the tear.

If i had any sense at all i would never have torn the carpet off the steps but i don t and i did so here we are now with something pretty spectacular if i do say so myself. To remove them use a floor scraper. We did this project over a full weekend and two additional weeks nights following. Cut a square out of the carpet taking care to completely surround the torn section.

Walk around the room noting where the carpet has come loose or edges have frayed. Long handled scrapers cost about 30 at home centers. When you ve torn off all the carpet and pad pull out all the staples with pliers. Examine these places to determine whether your carpet was laid with tackless strips or carpet tacks.

Fixing a ripped carpet while the tear is small can prevent accidents and keep the damage from spreading. Carpet across blogland may be flying off stairs after this one. Roll or fold the strip secure with duct tape and remove it from the room. I started pulling out the gazillion staples that held down the padding and the padding from the original carpet that was installed in 1978.

Here is my progress so far. Slice through the carpet with a utility knife cutting through carpet but not the padding. Now you have to fold back the ripped carpet as much as tear appears and make a line of seam adhesive tape along the bottom carpet tear edges so that that you can put the carpet back down and. Still have a lot of the finish work to do i e install moulding board and batten and paint.

Cut the pad into strips and roll it up just as you did with the carpet. After removing all the pad and tack strips the real work began. Keep both hands on the knife to avoid cutting a free hand. Use a utility knife with a sharp new blade to cut through the carpet backing.

Our main goal was to rip off the carpet see what wood was underneath and. On a concrete floor the pad is glued in place so big chunks of pad will remain stuck to the floor. Continue pulling up carpet a few feet at a time and cutting it into easy to handle strips. My husband and i recently tore the carpet from our stairs and painted the wood underneath creating a fresh clean and modern look.

Sharp objects can fall cutting carpets but most often tears and rips occur along the seamed edges or at the edges of badly worn. Fixing a ripped or torn carpet is essential because loose carpet tears easily. Start method of carpet damage repair by putting a small slide or flat edged tool such as a ruler underneath your carpet and lift the torn edge to fix it. Earlier last week i decided to rip the carpet off of my stairs and paint them.